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sharats שָׁרַץ sharats

To SWARM, teem — the creation-word for life multiplying (Genesis 1:20, the waters 'swarm with swarms'; 9:7, Noah told to 'swarm'). Exodus 1:7 stacks it into the five-verb increase — Israel 'were fruitful, and SWARMED, and multiplied, and grew mighty' — so the opening of the bondage is the CREATION BLESSING still at full volume on a slave people. KJV flattens it to 'increased abundantly.' → first discussed at Gen 1:7